Germanys refusal to send their Afghanistan-based troops into the volatile Southern provinces is symptom of much larger issues. By standing on the sidelines, the Germans join so-called NATO members Italy, Turkey, and that fierce-fighting nation France in supporting the War on Terror in words and little action...

Stop watching those old WW II documentaries. We kicked the fight out of the Germans in 2 wars. They lost millions in WW II. They know what war is like and what it costs them both in military lives and civilian. Bottom line, we are not dealing with the highly trained and motivated German Army that you see in the old documentaries.

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